Mount Nirka

Mount Nirka and its sister Mount Nyid are volcanos that used to lie within the land of Arak, Mount Nyid at its centre and Mount Nirka on its northern frontier with Darkon. They and their land were subsumed by Darkon as part of the Great Upheaval in 740 BC. Following the Requiem in 750 BC they have become active. The pair used to be side by side, but they appear to have grown apart, with Mount Nyid anchoring the southeastern Mountains of Misery and Mount Nirka anchoring the northwestern Mountains of Misery. Mount Nirka soars to a very impressive height of 7960 ft. It is the source of the Amnis Lacrimarum ("River of Tears"), which traverses Keening before joining the Corvus River well to the west in Darkon. Ultimately, it also the source of Lake Temporus, from which springs the Tempe River. Its northeastern foothills are described, wrongly it would appear, as the source of the Khourx River, unless they are also the source of the Foaming River. All life on Mount Nirka and indeed throughout Arak was eradicated in 588 BC by a sandstorm without precedent in an event recorded as the Scourge of Arak.

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